Hawaiʻi island got hit the hardest and its people are dealing with severe impacts to their daily lives.

Please take this storm seriously and look out for one another.

South Carolina is stronger, safer, and more prosperous than it was ten years ago, and people across the country have taken notice.

The cuts to individual income taxes are substantial.

I have made raising teacher pay a priority, and working together, we have now fulfilled my pledge to pay every starting teacher at least $50,000.

This budget adopts my recommendation to expand the program in private providers where there are slots available to children whose annual family income is 300% or less of the federal poverty guidelines.

This budget once again provides funds for the Education Scholarship Trust Fund.

This year’s budget marks the seventh consecutive year that the General Assembly has agreed with my proposal to freeze in-state college tuition.